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Yongkang Li

Duke UniversityORCID 0000-0003-1785-4689Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:Bayesian inference· 1 Research Focus:phylogenetics / evolution· 1

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Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprintOct 21, 2026

Bayesian Variable Selection Approaches to Identifying Selection in Evolutionary Datasets

Yongkang Li, Scott C. Schmidler

This paper introduces a Bayesian variable selection method for identifying selection in phylogenetic datasets, showing it outperforms Dirichlet-process models and avoids phantom selection artifacts.

DOI 10.64898/2026.10.19.760252

Bayesian inferencephylogenetics / evolution

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